5LRI

PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER MUTANT WITH GLUL212 REPLACED WITH TRP (CHAIN L, EL212W)

Summary for 5LRI

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb5lri/pdb
• Descriptor: Reaction center protein L chain, SPEROIDENONE, CARDIOLIPIN, ... (12 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: transmembrane, electron transport, photosynthesis
• Biological source: Rhodobacter sphaeroides (strain ATCC 17023 / 2.4.1 / NCIB 8253 / DSM 158); More
• Cellular location: Cellular chromatophore membrane ; Multi-pass membrane protein : Q3J1A5 Q3J1A6; Cellular chromatophore membrane; Single-pass membrane protein: Q3J170
• Total number of polymer chains: 3
• Total formula weight: 104666.14

Authors

Fyfe, P.K.,Jones, M.R. (deposition date: 2016-08-19, release date: 2016-11-09, Last modification date: 2024-05-01)

Primary citation

Friebe, V.M.,Swainsbury, D.J.,Fyfe, P.K.,van der Heijden, W.,Jones, M.R.,Frese, R.N.
On the mechanism of ubiquinone mediated photocurrent generation by a reaction center based photocathode.
Biochim.Biophys.Acta, 1857:1925-1934, 2016

PubMed Abstract: Upon photoexcitation, the reaction center (RC) pigment-proteins that facilitate natural photosynthesis achieve a metastable separation of electrical charge among the embedded cofactors. Because of the high quantum efficiency of this process, there is a growing interest in their incorporation into biohybrid materials for solar energy conversion, bioelectronics and biosensing. Multiple bioelectrochemical studies have shown that reaction centers from various photosynthetic organisms can be interfaced with diverse electrode materials for the generation of photocurrents, but many mechanistic aspects of native protein functionality in a non-native environment is unknown. In vivo, RC's catalyse ubiquinone-10 reduction, protonation and exchange with other lipid phase ubiquinone-10s via protein-controlled spatial orientation and protein rearrangement. In contrast, the mechanism of ubiquinone-0 reduction, used to facilitate fast RC turnover in an aqueous photoelectrochemical cell (PEC), may not proceed via the same pathway as the native cofactor. In this report we show truncation of the native isoprene tail results in larger RC turnover rates in a PEC despite the removal of the tail's purported role of ubiquinone headgroup orientation and binding. Through the use of reaction centers with single or double mutations, we also show the extent to which two-electron/two-proton ubiquinone chemistry that operates in vivo also underpins the ubiquinone-0 reduction by surface-adsorbed RCs in a PEC. This reveals that only the ubiquinone headgroup is critical to the fast turnover of the RC in a PEC and provides insight into design principles for the development of new biophotovoltaic cells and biosensors.

PubMed: 27687473
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.09.011

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.4 Å)